This seems almost too good to be true.

The front-runner to get the job as coach of the English national team is none other than …

Jurgen Klinsmann!

This is great news … for the U.S., where he currently is employed.

England, you’re on your own.

But we should be talking up Jurgen at this point, right? Painting him in a flattering light for gullible Englishmen. Like telling a potential buyer how clean the glove box is inside that lemon you are desperate to dump.

Hmmm, what then to say?

Hello, England …

–You know the Fifa world rankings mean pretty much nothing. It has you 11th and that’s pretty rich, for a team that lost to Iceland. So you can safely ignore the fact that the U.S. is ranked No. 31 under Jurgen (behind Slovakia, Northern Ireland, Costa Rica, etc.)  … compared to a high of fourth in 2006, when Bruce Arena was the U.S. coach, and 11th in 2009, when Bob Bradley was coach.

–In the same vein, give no credence to the all-time worst ranking by the U.S., since rankings were begun by Fifa in 1993, of 36 “achieved” by Jurgen in 2012. Yes, “since 1993” includes the Steve Sampson regime.

–If we consider that Jurgen is building the U.S. team without actually focusing on U.S.-developed players, we can safely say he’s doing a hell of a job. Not everyone can convince a half-dozen Germans to come play for the U.S.

–Jurgen has demonstrated he has no trouble ending the careers of “aging” players like Landon Donovan. You were pretty much done with Wayne Rooney, anyway, right?

–Jurgen has great hair.

–That stint at Bayern Munich? That club doesn’t win all that much, not really, and it’s a coach-killing kind of place.

–Those criticisms of Klinsmann made by veteran Bayern defender Philipp Lahm? Clearly just the ravings of a disgruntled and marginal player.

–We mentioned Jurgen’s hair, right?

–Jurgen can coach England in the fine art of diving, and some of your lads appear to have some strange aversion to that. Diving is the wave of the future.

–We should point out that if anyone feels like the U.S. has underachieved during Klinsmann’s five years in charge … please note that he did almost as well at the 2014 World Cup as Bob Bradley did at the 2010 World Cup — survived the group, lost in the round of 16. (OK, yes, Bradley won a group that included England; Klinsmann was second in a group that included Germany.)

–Jurgen was a successful player who didn’t limit himself to his home country. He played at Inter Milan, Monaco, Tottenham, Bayern, Sampdoria, demonstrating his international skills and willingness to relocate.

–Several really fine scorers have become coaches who can take a team to the final 16 of World Cup.

We could go on.

In short, this is a sort of American soccer fans fantasy. Klinsmann simply going away! Ahead of the 2018 World Cup!

No more random lineups, no more belittling the domestic league, no more foreigners dressed up in American jerseys.

It seems too good to be true. And probably is, given some of the snarky stuff now being written over in England. Like here, and here.

But a Yank can dream.